@@bruhmaster6923it's not about the end of slavery. It's when it was recognized in Texas. The commenter was right it is liberal division, what's the point of black history month which was to look back on everything and see how far we've come as a nation. Only to add a national holiday in June that as he said, wasn't recognized by even black folks until recently. To make it more ridiculous, they chose to set it during a demonic "pride" month.
I'm a Texan, and I remember talking to non-Texans about Juneteenth close to 20 years ago. They had no idea what I was talking about. It has always been a day that was taught in Texas history, because it's an important day in Texas history, but that's it. Just Texas, because that's what it observes. The day the slaves in Texas were told they were free. Making it a federally observed holiday is very ridiculous. I don't understand why the actual day the Emancipation Proclamation was signed isn't the day that's observed.
In Chicago we have Pulaski Day. Never heard of it until I moved here. I'm sure no one else outside of Chicago ever heard of it either. It's a closed school day holiday and they have parades.
Because just like Juneteenth, the emancipation proclamation was a leftist political stunt by the Lincoln Regime. Did freed no slaves in federal jurisdiction but only those in Confederate jurisdiction where Federal jurisdiction had no power. You see isn't that clear and concise and to the point just like the rest of the leftist gibberish.?
@@chrystallee5528whaaat do they celebrate Kazimierz Michał Władysław Wiktor Pułaski in Chicago! Thats actually pretty cool, he was from Poland ❤ The first to take the walk to Poland
Because the Emancipation proclamation only made slavery illegal in the States that succeeded from the union. It was still legal in the rest if the USA until the 13th amendment was ratified.
Thirteen years ago I had a business on Galveston island, the origin of this Holiday. I had hired a young woman of mixed descent to help in the shop i ran. She said three days into working the moment we were closing the store for the day that she wouldn’t be coming in on the busiest day of the week because it was Juneteenth. It was the first I ever heard of it. Needless to say she came in drunk and smelling of piss the day after this event and I promptly told her she needed to go home, sober up and we would discuss her telling me she would take off without any warning. Especially since I asked her up front when she was hired if something would keep her from working on that day. When she came in she was full of anger because I “ruined her buzz”. I said she was done and I wouldn’t and couldn’t have a drunk employee where children would be present. She promptly called me a racist asshole, threw a selection of material from the counter I had brought out showing her her signature saying she could work the day and left. I disliked the holiday afterwards but because it was at the time a Galveston only tradition I banked on help around the island not being there. This becoming a national holiday throws me for a loop. It would be like forcing people to celebrate “San Jacinto Day” that something Texas was forced to NOT celebrate because it would offend people apparently. It should have remained a Galveston or at least just a Texas holiday. Forcing people in other states who don’t even know where Galveston is or even there IS a Galveston Texas is just weird and creepy and silly to me.
Technically the 4th of July should only be celebrated by the few states that made up the US back in 1776. But it was forced to be celebrated by all states later, so maybe don't complain about Juneteenth.😏
@@juanmurillo3176 Well it does celebrate that black people were freed almost 150 years ago. Maybe they should stop complaining that whitey is keeping them down. 🤔
@@juanmurillo3176 No one is forcing anyone to celebrate anything. People choose to celebrate the day the United States of America won it's freedom and independence from Britain, but you don't have to celebrate if you don't want to, even if it's a National holiday. Personally I feel like celebrating the 4th of July is more important to celebrate and it unites *all* Americans as one Nation instead of segregating people into individual communities that aren't very inclusive to all Americans of different walks of life.
I believe the government just makes up useless federal holidays in order to have more excuses not to work because these holidays apply to no one but them.
@@Christos-Anesti-ICXCMy father asked me what i thought about it. I said, i get a day off, let them make as many new holidays as they want i dont have to agree to get the day off.
Whenever some liberal politician tosses a crumb or two at black ppl, and the majority of black ppl accept and celebrate it, I fall waaay back. That's how I detect the bs is in the air! Juneteenth? Issa a hard pass for me and mine.
Michael, we need to just shift the discussion around Juneteenth. “I enjoy celebrating the Republicans freeing the Democrat’s slaves.” The actual date doesn’t really matter, it’s the context.
The right: “Let’s stop talking about history! It’s only dividing us!” Also the right: “Hey, did you know that the democrats were racist? The democrats are evil, right? They’re so fucking evil, we should fight them constantly.” The left: “Southern strategy…” The right: “omg why are you being so divisive and bringing up history?”
I'm black and I never heard of it until after all the controversy surrounding George Floyd's death. You are so right. I went to my local warehouse club, I was greeted with, "Happy Juneteenth!" I responded with, "Oh okay, thank you..." before entering the automatic doors and being bombarded with "pride" stuff. Thank you for doing your homework, Michael Knowles, so we can know the truth behind the madness.
I'm from Texas and Juneteenth was rarely even known about in Texas.. much less outside of Texas. It's a strictly Texas event. And now I see that the northern blacks and liberals have adopted it as if it was their own holiday. Ridiculous!
I am not one to bring up "cultural appropriation", but stealing a local cultural tradition and making it for everybody is kind of a clear and cut case.
@@marlondowney4033 right. The thing is, the "cultural appropriation" most liberals talk about isn't actually stealing anything. Nobody ever thought "ooh, tacos! Let's take them to America and call them something else and eat them on the 4th of July and celebrate a great new American invention!" There's no disrespect in eating tacos. But there absolutely is disrespect in completely changing the meaning and location of a holiday with the sole purpose of using it to shove more race grifting into people's throats. Irony is always lost on the left.
Let's make July the real pride month, where we all wear red, white, and blue every second of every day, have real family-friendly parades, encourage everyone to make the country a better place, and don't endanger children.
That’ll be immediately labeled as racist, and that you’re trying to suppress black people. Cause the flag is now being considered racist. …what the hell is wrong with people now?
For us, it replaced Columbus Day, which was a dumb holiday because it celebrated a mariner that thought he in another continent that was halfway around the world. Apparently it was adopted as a holiday at some point because of all the Italians that were moving here, and so they felt like they were included having a holiday or something.
@WakingUptheMasses23 He was an Italian mariner funded by the Spanish monarchy because his own monarchy wouldn’t support him. He made three trips here, and thought that he was in Japan and Indonesia. This is why we refer to all our indigenous peoples as Indians because he believed he was in the West Indies. That is also why the continents we live in are called the Americas, after the cartographer, Amerigo Vespucci, also an Italian, because he actually figured out that we were in a totally separate landmass from Asia. Oh, and 500 years before him, the Norse had not only established colonies in what we now call Newfoundland but also literally a logging industry. So not only didn’t he not find shit, but he also had no idea where he was.
I love that since it’s started there’s just been crazy mobs, like CA where a guy got shot, a ambulance showed up, and then they all started jumping onto the ambulance. And the gunshot victim died on scene cause they couldn’t reach him.
Amen! If you're on American soil, and you are a legal citizen of the USA, you have July 4th. Stop the stupid segregation........ Americans are one people, from many different cultures.
Condeleza Rice said she celebrated Juneteenth when she was a child. She said it was a special day as she grew up and they celebrated it. And she's in her 60s, so they have been celebrating it for a long time.
Trump was a good president but bros goin to prison. I feel like they’re tryna get him just like Andrew Tate because he’s actually speaking logic and the government fears people thinking logically. Not that they’re the same but i whole heartedly believe that trump just wants to make America great and for some reason everyone hates that.
@@billthecat22 Grammar and spelling aren't everyone's thing, but at least he spelled it with an 'i'. You have no idea how many times I've seen someone spell ridiculous with an 'e'. it's honestly pathetic how few get it right, so since he at least spelled it correctly that's close enough to a win.
In some cases, yes. But often people were sold by other tribes. Africans never grouped themselves by skin color. So, no it wasn't necessarily "their own people."
It wasn't lol one tribe sold another tribe. They have different dna, they are different people. However it wasn't them that created chattel slavery and bred slaves together. White people did that.
I had to wait an extra day for my pay to come in the mail. So you're lucky enough to get holidays off. I worked at a factory where, if you were on the schedule to work a day that happened to be a holiday, you had to work. I worked on July 4 when I was there. I had to work Christmas Day at a store years ago.
@bite-sizedshorts9635 I've worked 15 years in a hospital. Talk about NEVER getting a holiday off. Sick people are so inconsiderate. (Should I cry or should I laugh?)
As a resident of Texas it was so wierd to watch a bunch of people who never heard of June tenth wanting to make it a national holiday. It was a local holiday with a history and a story.
You left out the main purpose. It is there to replace Father's Day. To keep separating and diving already broken fatherless homes. I belive their rationale was: Let (black people) them rage about their white oppressors while they forget they are supposed to be celebrating Fatherhood.
Very good point, the objective of these deviants and commies is the destruction of the family fabric and with that the nation. Something huge has to happen. If you get my drift.
@jonathanthomas8557 Native Texan here. You actually are incorrect. I can’t speak to how long it’s been going on or where else’s it’s celebrated. I can just honestly tell you ever since Hurricane Ike hit Houston , Galveston and Beaumont in 2008. I know it’s been celebrated because on Crystal beach Black Americans would throw a celebration for it as if it was important to them. Just as everyone goes down to Corpus Christi during Memorial Day.
Doesn’t take away from Michael’s statement. It is widely unknown to the vast majority of Americans and I’m not disagreeing with BOCAJUN. As far as I’m aware it’s something that only Texans or Louisianans knew about. I would probably say that all the migration that has been happening in our state lately from very liberal states more than likely lead to this “awareness”.
@@bobbyboling4930Native Texan too and legit never heard about it until everyone started making a big deal about it across the country, and I've lived all across Texas.
I saw a girl who was maybe 21 , say thay she remembered when her family celebrated juneteenth when she was little. I was just watching her, incredulous that she could stand right there lying in broad daylight.
I felt similarly when saw a half-black-half-Indian Vice President who definitely grew up with Indian culture say that she remembered celebrating Kwanzaa when she was little.
Personally, I'm not opposed to having a day to remember the freeing of some of the slaves, but why does it have the dumbest name for a holiday I know of?
@@TheRealSquooshnow im really confused. what happend for a whole week? At first I was confused because its not a date the slaves were freed, then they said it was because a guy told people in Texas the slaves were freed. Wouldn't that have been only one day that happened or did he do it for a whole week?
I do agree that most federal holidays really don't require Days off work and i'd be ok with doing away with a few of them but there are half a dozen of them I would not be ok with repealing.
Why don’t we get to vote who gets our tax money. Y’all act like it’s your money when it’s dumb shit but when it’s a war or reparations to another country you don’t complain how they spend your money. Unless it’s Africa or Haiti- Ukraine tho- that’s why you pay taxes huh? Gtfoh
@shannonstewart7952 who cares what you wouldn't be ok getting rid of. They are public servants and should not get any benefits that most taxpayers do not get. All government employees already do next to nothing, and what they do takes longer than necessary at a higher cost.
@@matthewtrauger3683 Exactly! I believe the government just makes up useless federal holidays in order to have more excuses not to work and get paid for nothing because these holidays apply to no one but them.
My friends in Texas, many of whom happen to be Black, started laughing at this 3 years ago, and have not stopped. One friend was honestly disappointed that it was not just a Texas holiday any more. It's getting freaking scary, what people en masse will just believe because they saw it on the Internet!
Every American should celebrate the fact that republicans ended democrat slavery. I think that republicans should often remind Americans that they are the ones who ended slavery because it is a fact that seems to be forgotten. So many people hold slavery against America and white people but fail to understand that slavery was a problem globally long before America was established. So the fact that white Republican men ended it after centuries around the world should Grant some appreciation... The appreciation received is to be called racist by the democrat slavery party and the offspring of slaves they set free.
@@numbernine3436uh… we all get MLK day regardless of your melanin levels. Maybe your employer doesn’t honor it, but that’s on them. Wait til you find out some people have to work on Thanksgiving…
@@spraynard9529 it matters not to me what day it is if there's work to be done. I worked for 20 years for a company that only paid holiday was Christmas. That was only if it fell on a regular work day. We did "shutdown " work and factories shutdown at Thanksgiving. When I said it wasn't recognized I wasn't bitching.
@@Tommy.461 just to be clear, I was responding to someone whose comment is no longer here, but I believe they said something like “don’t black people have enough holidays?” My point is that Juneteenth and MLK day being recognized as holidays applies to everyone, regardless of race. If you’re fine with working on holidays, cool.
@@billieo5376 personally I'd put it on the ratification of the 13th ammendment. The emancipation proclamation was pretty much just a stunt to punish rebelling states.
Why are you listening to a liberal about anything? I'm from Texas and it's an unofficial day of celebrating the end of slavery. Some towns go all out with fireworks and picnics. It's another day of celebrating freedom, but doesn't replace Independence Day on the 4th of July.
I went to the library and the doors were locked with no explanation posted. I ran into a black lady in the parking lot and asked her if she knew if it was a holiday or something, she had no idea either. Later someone informed me it was Juneteenth and it was now a federal holiday.
@@terryfoote2313 Just curious... Google says "prime ministers can stay in office as long as their government has the confidence of a majority in the House of Commons of Canada under the system of responsible government." Do you still have a chance to rid of him?
I wanted to celebrate Juneteenth, but have no idea what teenth to celebrate on. Please clarify. Is it thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, tell you what, I will keep celebrating the 4th of July. At least that day is documented.
@@dgarzaart2000omeone said earlier it marks a whole week. 13th through 19th. That's where I'm confused because I thought they said it represents a day a guy told people they were freed so did it take him a whole week to do that or just one day. Every thing about this is so confusing
Maybe I'm naive, but for the moment I fully intend to take this holiday as my own. I'm going to celebrate the end of slavery with gusto, and push for the day we can celebrate the end of infanticide.
Yet women & children are still bought, sold made to do things no one should have to. Lots & lots of people picked cotton. I remember my grandfather picking it( Caucasian) I'm sure trafficked women & kids made to have sex 40x a day wished they were picking anything. Instead a 6 month old is being r@ped over & over. FACTS. HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IN YOUR & MY TOWN
Michael, I agree with you in almost everything. But on this, you're wrong. Here in Texas Juneteenth has been a thing for all my 68 years. As a Texan, I like Juneteenth because it shows two things: 1. The evil of slavery was no longer condoned by law. 2. If you start a fight with Texas, be assured that we don't give up easily or quickly.
Your 2nd point make no sense in this context and your 1st point makes no sense at all. 1. The evil of slavery was still condoned by law in the North and some parts of the West. The Emancipation Proclamation only effected the South. It was a tool to encourage slaves/former slaves to rise up against their masters/local government/state government, which would help the North win the war. The EP did not end slavery in the USA nor make it illegal (that's what the 13th Amendment did). 2) The EP could only be forced onto Texas because it lost the American Civil War. It is true that Texas has a strong fighting spirit. But that is irrelevant in this context because it was Texas that lost. And Texas' loss is the reason that Juneteenth (the forceful freeing of slaves in Texas by the North) was able to happen at all. I'm all for Texas pride, but Juneteenth is a uniquely Texan holiday. It makes no sense for the rest of the country to celebrate it. As a country, celebrating the ratification of the 13th Amendment makes much more sense. After all, that's the day the the evil of slavery was outlawed across the entire country (not just one state).
Bro I’ve known what Juneteenth is my entire life. It shouldn’t be some new “independence day” but it is a thing people from the south are aware of. I think it’s a cool day to recognize. Just because Michael Knowles hadn’t heard of it from his Ivy League background doesn’t make any difference. I love the daily wire but Mr. Knowles has an arrogance about him that is off putting.
@@mrmicro22 I don’t think my comment had any arrogance included in it at all. It was simply my opinion of the character of Michael Knowles based on hundreds of hours listening to his podcasts and debates. I enjoyed the majority of my time listening to him but that doesn’t change my opinion. I obviously triggered you and I honestly am enjoying your misery over a RUclips comment.
I swear homie you complain about this shit every year. Can’t people just enjoy it and you can feel free to enjoy your day off and drink wine or whatever.
As a USPS employee, I'm incredibly grateful for the holiday. I'm not black, or any other kind of minority for that matter. I am lazy and hate my job though, so the more days off, the better lol.
The only thing it means to me is the post office is closed
And the landfill, which cost me more money cause I couldn't get work done
They didn’t pick up the trash on my street today , Tuesday ,because Monday was Juneteenth a holiday ???
And the banks!
But NOT The UPS Store!!!!
Good thing it wasn’t closed back then, or we might not have Juneteenth. The most ridiculous name of anything ever. It’s the blind leading the black.
More liberal division.
Stop being offended at the celebration of the end of slavery then...
@@bruhmaster6923If you watched the video, Michael explains that it wasn’t even the end of slavery, just the end of slavery in the North.
@@fatstrategist Don't trust his framing just googled the topic. Is texas the north?
@@bruhmaster6923 🐑
@@bruhmaster6923it's not about the end of slavery. It's when it was recognized in Texas. The commenter was right it is liberal division, what's the point of black history month which was to look back on everything and see how far we've come as a nation. Only to add a national holiday in June that as he said, wasn't recognized by even black folks until recently.
To make it more ridiculous, they chose to set it during a demonic "pride" month.
I'm a Texan, and I remember talking to non-Texans about Juneteenth close to 20 years ago. They had no idea what I was talking about. It has always been a day that was taught in Texas history, because it's an important day in Texas history, but that's it. Just Texas, because that's what it observes. The day the slaves in Texas were told they were free. Making it a federally observed holiday is very ridiculous. I don't understand why the actual day the Emancipation Proclamation was signed isn't the day that's observed.
I had been wondering why I never heard of it before I moved to Texas. When I first heard of it, I thought it was some kind of festival.
In Chicago we have Pulaski Day. Never heard of it until I moved here. I'm sure no one else outside of Chicago ever heard of it either. It's a closed school day holiday and they have parades.
Because just like Juneteenth, the emancipation proclamation was a leftist political stunt by the Lincoln Regime. Did freed no slaves in federal jurisdiction but only those in Confederate jurisdiction where Federal jurisdiction had no power. You see isn't that clear and concise and to the point just like the rest of the leftist gibberish.?
@@chrystallee5528whaaat do they celebrate Kazimierz Michał Władysław Wiktor Pułaski in Chicago! Thats actually pretty cool, he was from Poland ❤ The first to take the walk to Poland
Because the Emancipation proclamation only made slavery illegal in the States that succeeded from the union. It was still legal in the rest if the USA until the 13th amendment was ratified.
This government is a disgrace
Calling it a disgrace is an understatement...
@@ElusivEnigmayeah,true that
Our Founders would be shooting by now.
@@ElusivEnigmaI shudder to think what world leaders really think of Biden, but won't say it publicly. Anyone want to Hazard a guess?
@@eileenstasczak6606 one of the strongest country in the world with a senile child as a leader? Better leave them alone and laugh from a distance.
Thirteen years ago I had a business on Galveston island, the origin of this
Holiday. I had hired a young woman of mixed descent to help in the shop i ran. She said three days into working the moment we were closing the store for the day that she wouldn’t be coming in on the busiest day of the week because it was Juneteenth. It was the first I ever heard of it. Needless to say she came in drunk and smelling of piss the day after this event and I promptly told her she needed to go home, sober up and we would discuss her telling me she would take off without any warning. Especially since I asked her up front when she was hired if something would keep her from working on that day. When she came in she was full of anger because I “ruined her buzz”. I said she was done and I wouldn’t and couldn’t have a drunk employee where children would be present. She promptly called me a racist asshole, threw a selection of material from the counter I had brought out showing her her signature saying she could work the day and left. I disliked the holiday afterwards but because it was at the time a Galveston only tradition I banked on help around the island not being there. This becoming a national holiday throws me for a loop. It would be like forcing people to celebrate “San Jacinto Day” that something Texas was forced to NOT celebrate because it would offend people apparently. It should have remained a Galveston or at least just a Texas holiday. Forcing people in other states who don’t even know where Galveston is or even there
IS a Galveston Texas is just weird and creepy and silly to me.
Sure buddy.🙄
Technically the 4th of July should only be celebrated by the few states that made up the US back in 1776. But it was forced to be celebrated by all states later, so maybe don't complain about Juneteenth.😏
@@juanmurillo3176move to another country
@@juanmurillo3176 Well it does celebrate that black people were freed almost 150 years ago. Maybe they should stop complaining that whitey is keeping them down. 🤔
@@juanmurillo3176 No one is forcing anyone to celebrate anything. People choose to celebrate the day the United States of America won it's freedom and independence from Britain, but you don't have to celebrate if you don't want to, even if it's a National holiday.
Personally I feel like celebrating the 4th of July is more important to celebrate and it unites *all* Americans as one Nation instead of segregating people into individual communities that aren't very inclusive to all Americans of different walks of life.
Another day off for the government
This
As a military member, yes and I love it
I believe the government just makes up useless federal holidays in order to have more excuses not to work because these holidays apply to no one but them.
Paid day off
@@Christos-Anesti-ICXCMy father asked me what i thought about it. I said, i get a day off, let them make as many new holidays as they want i dont have to agree to get the day off.
We’re pretending to have a president as well.
Remember the time the former president pretended that Colorado is on the southern border?
@@johnclaybaugh9536dude you aren’t smart at all keep hitting that pipe
We have a heavily medicated sock puppet pResident who does what Obama tells him to do via teleprompter, earwig or personal nanny!
@@johnclaybaugh9536
Lay off the drugs.
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All I heard is violence violence violence for Juneteenth I think it's nothing but bulshit
You would be correct.
4th of july is bs. Christmas and easter is bs
All this means is my trash pickup schedule got messed up and now I have to wait for them to get back on track
Regardless, I think that the end of slavery should be a holiday.
Whenever some liberal politician tosses a crumb or two at black ppl, and the majority of black ppl accept and celebrate it, I fall waaay back. That's how I detect the bs is in the air! Juneteenth? Issa a hard pass for me and mine.
Here here🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️🙋♀️
Juneteenth is just as irrelevant as Kwanza.
Or festivus 😂😂
...and as phony.
@@debrajol3585, hey, I’ve got a lot to say to you! 😂
You beat me to it. Hi-5 🖐️
@@debrajol3585 I think there`s another one called "Cunillingus". Oh wait a second...I may be mistaken. Lol.
The most important thing is the government is closed another day and cannot do more damage
😂
So Freaking True
Didn’t think of it that way, but your right 😂
They'll be satisfied with that instead of reparations, says Biden.
Let Africa pay them and the families reparations first!
@@Robertrugger6 The Church, England, Africa and the U.S., let them all pay at the same time.
The federal employees just want a day off every month.
thats because most federal employees are black
I won’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
Michael, we need to just shift the discussion around Juneteenth.
“I enjoy celebrating the Republicans freeing the Democrat’s slaves.” The actual date doesn’t really matter, it’s the context.
W
I enjoy celebrating it as the last time republicans raised the minimum wage.
The right: “Let’s stop talking about history! It’s only dividing us!”
Also the right: “Hey, did you know that the democrats were racist? The democrats are evil, right? They’re so fucking evil, we should fight them constantly.”
The left: “Southern strategy…”
The right: “omg why are you being so divisive and bringing up history?”
@@bogella2225the minimum wage should be abolished. It's completely unconstitutional and a perfect example of massive government overreach.
@@anonymoushonesty2688 Thanks for the incorrection.
I'm black and I never heard of it until after all the controversy surrounding George Floyd's death. You are so right. I went to my local warehouse club, I was greeted with, "Happy Juneteenth!" I responded with, "Oh okay, thank you..." before entering the automatic doors and being bombarded with "pride" stuff. Thank you for doing your homework, Michael Knowles, so we can know the truth behind the madness.
Thank YOU.
WS pretending to be Black is nothing new
As a Texan, Juneteenth has been recognized my whole life. In high school I met peeps from other places who had never heard of it.
I didn’t hear about it until a took a texas history course in college, and it’s pretty specific to Galveston actually, so not even all of texas
@@sayitaintso417 I grew up in Central Texas but I cannot speak on behalf of the rest of the state. Everyone around me knew about Juneteenth.
I'm from Texas and Juneteenth was rarely even known about in Texas.. much less outside of Texas. It's a strictly Texas event. And now I see that the northern blacks and liberals have adopted it as if it was their own holiday. Ridiculous!
I used to live in Corpus Christi. Selena Quintanilla was far more important. 😂
I was floored to see we had the day off but I work for a huge insurance company who is always trying to figure out another diversity day.
I am not one to bring up "cultural appropriation", but stealing a local cultural tradition and making it for everybody is kind of a clear and cut case.
@@marlondowney4033And changing its original meaning for progressive politics as well.
@@marlondowney4033 right. The thing is, the "cultural appropriation" most liberals talk about isn't actually stealing anything. Nobody ever thought "ooh, tacos! Let's take them to America and call them something else and eat them on the 4th of July and celebrate a great new American invention!" There's no disrespect in eating tacos. But there absolutely is disrespect in completely changing the meaning and location of a holiday with the sole purpose of using it to shove more race grifting into people's throats. Irony is always lost on the left.
Let's make July the real pride month, where we all wear red, white, and blue every second of every day, have real family-friendly parades, encourage everyone to make the country a better place, and don't endanger children.
That’ll be immediately labeled as racist, and that you’re trying to suppress black people. Cause the flag is now being considered racist.
…what the hell is wrong with people now?
Well it's not for black ppl
Sure, but as pride is a sin maybe call it something else.
Absolute Truth!
That makes it even more important to go all out on the 4th of July! Get out your Red, White and Blue and represent!!! We’re ALL free!!!
Freedom can have two days
Only one of them mean anything
I've ALWAYS dressed up for Independence Day!
And I LOVE IT!!! 😁👍❤️🇺🇸🦅🎉
Bring out the Red, White, and Blue!!! 🇺🇸🦅🕊️🎊🎇🎆😁😁😁👍👍❤️❤️❤️🇺🇸🦅🕊️🎉🎊🎇🎆
@@mattboyce3276 Which one? Please do tell.
👁💯♥️🇺🇸 & 4th of July, America’s Independence Day‼️ 📜🇺🇸‼️
Can’t you see ? They are trying to change all important days in our history 😡thank you for telling this to all🙏🏾
Yep
It’s a hostile black takeover. Blm juneteenth, American Indian history. Mark my words these 🥷 will try to take over.
BS
They just want more days off.😂😂😂
4/20 day will be next.
Well I won't fight too hard against that then.
Government wasteful workers getting another paid day off.
Don't forget festivus.
You nailed it. Another paid holiday! When will the freebies stop!
As a government employee I support all new BS holidays. If they want to make a June twentyteenth, I’m also in.
I know right! Haha!
For us, it replaced Columbus Day, which was a dumb holiday because it celebrated a mariner that thought he in another continent that was halfway around the world. Apparently it was adopted as a holiday at some point because of all the Italians that were moving here, and so they felt like they were included having a holiday or something.
@@user-ug5xr2gb6jI love Columbus Day because it pisses off the lefties 😂
@WakingUptheMasses23 He was an Italian mariner funded by the Spanish monarchy because his own monarchy wouldn’t support him. He made three trips here, and thought that he was in Japan and Indonesia. This is why we refer to all our indigenous peoples as Indians because he believed he was in the West Indies. That is also why the continents we live in are called the Americas, after the cartographer, Amerigo Vespucci, also an Italian, because he actually figured out that we were in a totally separate landmass from Asia. Oh, and 500 years before him, the Norse had not only established colonies in what we now call Newfoundland but also literally a logging industry. So not only didn’t he not find shit, but he also had no idea where he was.
A lazy government employee? Color me shocked.
I am 56 from Texas and they have always celebrated Juneteenth in Texas.
How about we start paying attention to the child slaves that are mining lithium?
Since when did you guys care about workers?
Lithium for electric car batteries right?
@@eetoved1758 you bet
Biden wants all of us to drive electric cars. so I guess we are going to need alot more child slaves.
And cobalt
I love that since it’s started there’s just been crazy mobs, like CA where a guy got shot, a ambulance showed up, and then they all started jumping onto the ambulance. And the gunshot victim died on scene cause they couldn’t reach him.
That's just how they celebrate their culture. 🤷🏻♂️
Dont forget there was a juneteenth celebration in Chicago and someone shot it up and killed 1 injured 25.
Hey that’s their culture!
🤔 hmmmm. Sounds about right.
Juneteenth Celebration in Asheville, there was a shooting.
I was so peaved that I couldn't buy liquor. This "holiday" is dumb.
😂
Lost $100 because we had to pay for guests on what was pre-Juneteenth, a free guest day. Since yesterday, I have a grudge with Biden 💀
Since he was a Senator I had a grudge with him
Should have switched to Malt Liquor… it’s the only thing available on this day …. The Champagne of Great Decisions
Where do you live?
Thank you, Michael.
Exactly!!
As a black person, I can confirm that it is NOT a thing😐Thank you!
Thank YOU. God bless.
And as a white person i can confirm that it's definitely is a thing 🙃 your welcome
So as a Cherokee living of a reservation; what is our Independence Day? Heads up to everyone it’s July 4th.❤🇺🇸
That’s hilariously stupid
Not wvwryone gets an Independence Day.
I liked your comment! 👍🏼
Good luck!! I hope you’re happy there or can move to somewhere that makes you happier ❤
Amen! If you're on American soil, and you are a legal citizen of the USA, you have July 4th. Stop the stupid segregation........ Americans are one people, from many different cultures.
Yes, my bank is closed. I can't believe this shit.
Condeleza Rice said she celebrated Juneteenth when she was a child. She said it was a special day as she grew up and they celebrated it. And she's in her 60s, so they have been celebrating it for a long time.
Just another day when sensible shop owners board up their windows.
😂😂😂 😂
It's a mockery of everything my country stands for, and all who fought and died for our freedom!
Explain please
It'll silly but not quite a mockery
Why?
I hope Trump dumps this RIDICULES holiday!
yeah he could do that, but i'm thinking just let em have it, because that's another paid holiday for me.
Trump was a good president but bros goin to prison. I feel like they’re tryna get him just like Andrew Tate because he’s actually speaking logic and the government fears people thinking logically. Not that they’re the same but i whole heartedly believe that trump just wants to make America great and for some reason everyone hates that.
And makes June 24th pro life day
Ridicules??? You mean ridiculous?
@@billthecat22 Grammar and spelling aren't everyone's thing, but at least he spelled it with an 'i'. You have no idea how many times I've seen someone spell ridiculous with an 'e'. it's honestly pathetic how few get it right, so since he at least spelled it correctly that's close enough to a win.
Juneteenth was always a big thing here in San Antonio Texas. At least in my life time
No. It's a celebration of nothing but a way to stir drama.
Thank you for this.
God Bless America and All it's people in Unity. ✨🙏🎖️
We're talking about people who don't believe their ancestors were sold into slavery by their own people.
In some cases, yes. But often people were sold by other tribes. Africans never grouped themselves by skin color. So, no it wasn't necessarily "their own people."
It wasn't lol one tribe sold another tribe. They have different dna, they are different people.
However it wasn't them that created chattel slavery and bred slaves together. White people did that.
Black africans are STILL selling black africans .
To this day there are slave auctions in Somalia, Egypt, the Congo, etc.
Yes
Better not be swaping independence day.
??????
even if it was opened, you're probably gonna stay in line for like an hour or so. just use the damn back app.
They aren't. Its just the latest in virtue signaling.
This is the first time I am ever hearing anyone compare the two.
If it gives me extra money for a holiday I’m all for it or a day off. Who gives a rats ass over anything Biden gives us?
I'm just upset because I get my medicine in the mail on Mondays of every month and because of this I had to wait til Tuesday.😂
I had to wait an extra day for my pay to come in the mail. So you're lucky enough to get holidays off. I worked at a factory where, if you were on the schedule to work a day that happened to be a holiday, you had to work. I worked on July 4 when I was there. I had to work Christmas Day at a store years ago.
@bite-sizedshorts9635 I've worked 15 years in a hospital. Talk about NEVER getting a holiday off. Sick people are so inconsiderate. (Should I cry or should I laugh?)
As a resident of Texas it was so wierd to watch a bunch of people who never heard of June tenth wanting to make it a national holiday. It was a local holiday with a history and a story.
I was wondering what this was all about . Glad you cleared it up for me .
You left out the main purpose. It is there to replace Father's Day. To keep separating and diving already broken fatherless homes. I belive their rationale was: Let (black people) them rage about their white oppressors while they forget they are supposed to be celebrating Fatherhood.
Very good point, the objective of these deviants and commies is the destruction of the family fabric and with that the nation. Something huge has to happen. If you get my drift.
I don’t get why the entire nation has to celebrate a Texan holiday
It wasn’t a big thing here in Texas until a few years ago no one had heard of it before 😂
@jonathanthomas8557
Native Texan here. You actually are incorrect. I can’t speak to how long it’s been going on or where else’s it’s celebrated. I can just honestly tell you ever since Hurricane Ike hit Houston , Galveston and Beaumont in 2008. I know it’s been celebrated because on Crystal beach Black Americans would throw a celebration for it as if it was important to them. Just as everyone goes down to Corpus Christi during Memorial Day.
@@bobbyboling4930my corpse is thirst
Doesn’t take away from Michael’s statement. It is widely unknown to the vast majority of Americans and I’m not disagreeing with BOCAJUN. As far as I’m aware it’s something that only Texans or Louisianans knew about. I would probably say that all the migration that has been happening in our state lately from very liberal states more than likely lead to this “awareness”.
@@bobbyboling4930Native Texan too and legit never heard about it until everyone started making a big deal about it across the country, and I've lived all across Texas.
THANK YOU MICHEAL! This nonsense irritates the heck out if me. And then people act like I am supposed to give a crap.
PREACH !
Juneteenth should be replaced with a "Emancipation Day" in December
I saw a girl who was maybe 21 , say thay she remembered when her family celebrated juneteenth when she was little. I was just watching her, incredulous that she could stand right there lying in broad daylight.
I felt similarly when saw a half-black-half-Indian Vice President who definitely grew up with Indian culture say that she remembered celebrating Kwanzaa when she was little.
Personally, I'm not opposed to having a day to remember the freeing of some of the slaves, but why does it have the dumbest name for a holiday I know of?
Well, because it represents the week in june from the 13 TEENTH TO THE 19 TEENTH.
Because Pride was already taken?😂😂
@@TheRealSquoosh that doesn't make it less stupid. i'll make my own holiday and call it aprilmayfth. it goes from april to may fifth.
@@TheRealSquoosh I didn't know it was an entire week, I thought it was just the 19th
@@TheRealSquooshnow im really confused. what happend for a whole week? At first I was confused because its not a date the slaves were freed, then they said it was because a guy told people in Texas the slaves were freed. Wouldn't that have been only one day that happened or did he do it for a whole week?
We need to get rid of all federal holidays. Why do most of the tax payers get stuck with paying people to take a day off while we have to go to work?
We just need to get rid of all holidays.
We can still give gifts,candy, flowers, eat, and not have it be tied to pagan origins.
I do agree that most federal holidays really don't require Days off work and i'd be ok with doing away with a few of them but there are half a dozen of them I would not be ok with repealing.
Why don’t we get to vote who gets our tax money. Y’all act like it’s your money when it’s dumb shit but when it’s a war or reparations to another country you don’t complain how they spend your money. Unless it’s Africa or Haiti- Ukraine tho- that’s why you pay taxes huh? Gtfoh
@shannonstewart7952 who cares what you wouldn't be ok getting rid of. They are public servants and should not get any benefits that most taxpayers do not get. All government employees already do next to nothing, and what they do takes longer than necessary at a higher cost.
@@matthewtrauger3683 Exactly! I believe the government just makes up useless federal holidays in order to have more excuses not to work and get paid for nothing because these holidays apply to no one but them.
Amen!
My friends in Texas, many of whom happen to be Black, started laughing at this 3 years ago, and have not stopped. One friend was honestly disappointed that it was not just a Texas holiday any more.
It's getting freaking scary, what people en masse will just believe because they saw it on the Internet!
Found out the hard way about this holiday yesterday when the post office is closed like how is this a Federal holiday who gives a s***
Every American should celebrate the fact that republicans ended democrat slavery.
I think that republicans should often remind Americans that they are the ones who ended slavery because it is a fact that seems to be forgotten.
So many people hold slavery against America and white people but fail to understand that slavery was a problem globally long before America was established.
So the fact that white Republican men ended it after centuries around the world should Grant some appreciation... The appreciation received is to be called racist by the democrat slavery party and the offspring of slaves they set free.
They'll never take away July 4th.
When i lived in Texas 30 years ago there were lots of black people that took that day off or called in sick but it wasn't recognized as a holiday.
Well they get mlk too. White people work
@@numbernine3436uh… we all get MLK day regardless of your melanin levels. Maybe your employer doesn’t honor it, but that’s on them. Wait til you find out some people have to work on Thanksgiving…
@@spraynard9529 it matters not to me what day it is if there's work to be done. I worked for 20 years for a company that only paid holiday was Christmas. That was only if it fell on a regular work day. We did "shutdown " work and factories shutdown at Thanksgiving.
When I said it wasn't recognized I wasn't bitching.
@@Tommy.461 just to be clear, I was responding to someone whose comment is no longer here, but I believe they said something like “don’t black people have enough holidays?”
My point is that Juneteenth and MLK day being recognized as holidays applies to everyone, regardless of race.
If you’re fine with working on holidays, cool.
@@spraynard9529 I was wondering what you were upset about.
Juneteenth aka Republican Party Appreciation Day. 👍
Thank you!
Thank you. My family and I were so confused why we were supposed to celebrate and why we had never heard of it😂😂😂
I'll take my independence day! 💯
I was talking about it with a liberal coworker of mine, she thought it was the day the emancipation proclamation was signed.
That's what we should be celebrating.
@@billieo5376 personally I'd put it on the ratification of the 13th ammendment. The emancipation proclamation was pretty much just a stunt to punish rebelling states.
@@billieo5376why celebrate something that was only done to weaken the south during the war before that no one gave a shit about slavery
Why are you listening to a liberal about anything?
I'm from Texas and it's an unofficial day of celebrating the end of slavery. Some towns go all out with fireworks and picnics. It's another day of celebrating freedom, but doesn't replace Independence Day on the 4th of July.
Looting is replacing fireworks. Get on board!
Thanks for explaining this
It's like Kwanza.
No, Kwanzaa is a totally made up semi religious day.
Sorry but if there's not a sale that day it's not a holiday 😂
🌹😁exactly
What about a big day at the bars, like Cinco de Mayo, which was celebrated in the USA first.
Facts!
We need to swap Pride and Black months. Let the gays have February and all it's bitter chill
I feel so dumb. I called my doctors office yesterday and I was told that it was a holiday. So I asked what holiday and she said it was Father’s Day??
Haha
I went to the library and the doors were locked with no explanation posted. I ran into a black lady in the parking lot and asked her if she knew if it was a holiday or something, she had no idea either. Later someone informed me it was Juneteenth and it was now a federal holiday.
Fatherless day based on the jokes
Fatherless day based on the jokes
Right..That's what I'm saying..never heard of it..
I get holiday pay for it now and had no idea what it was about 😂
It's gonna be horrible when independence day is officially called "old Independence day"
One of the few things that makes me glad I live in Canada.
Ya cause we only have to deal with Truedope
@@terryfoote2313 Just curious... Google says "prime ministers can stay in office as long as their government has the confidence of a majority in the House of Commons of Canada under the system of responsible government." Do you still have a chance to rid of him?
Your happy with that freak Prime Minister, that you have you guys got it just as bad as we do .
I wanted to celebrate Juneteenth, but have no idea what teenth to celebrate on. Please clarify. Is it thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, tell you what, I will keep celebrating the 4th of July. At least that day is documented.
It's June 19th.
@@dgarzaart2000omeone said earlier it marks a whole week. 13th through 19th. That's where I'm confused because I thought they said it represents a day a guy told people they were freed so did it take him a whole week to do that or just one day. Every thing about this is so confusing
Gives even more meaning to repeal the 19th. . . .
Amen to that
Lol I was making this exact point at work the other day. So much gaslighting with this “holiday”.
Union soldiers, not the post office, travel through the South finishing in Texas to TELL the plantation owners that their slaves were free.
Union soldiers raped slaves and destroyed property
Union soldiers did evil things
They were evil
@@MeadeSkeltonMusicfreeing slaves is evil? 🤨
He was being facetious. Not literal.
Maybe I'm naive, but for the moment I fully intend to take this holiday as my own. I'm going to celebrate the end of slavery with gusto, and push for the day we can celebrate the end of infanticide.
there is still
slavery
@@Starswake Yes, but we're talking about the US.
@@annarodriguez9868 yes in the US
Yet women & children are still bought, sold made to do things no one should have to. Lots & lots of people picked cotton. I remember my grandfather picking it( Caucasian) I'm sure trafficked women & kids made to have sex 40x a day wished they were picking anything. Instead a 6 month old is being r@ped over & over. FACTS. HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IN YOUR & MY TOWN
@@Starswake🤦♀️
It was a big deal in my part of Texas. It was always an unofficial holiday for the black community.
A Black Texas picnic day.
And? It's invalid day
You can call an apple 🍎 an orange 🍊
As long as I get a day off
Who else needs a holiday
I’m in !!!!
I enjoy it....its a nice day off from work. Thanks everybody
Michael, I agree with you in almost everything. But on this, you're wrong. Here in Texas Juneteenth has been a thing for all my 68 years. As a Texan, I like Juneteenth because it shows two things:
1. The evil of slavery was no longer condoned by law.
2. If you start a fight with Texas, be assured that we don't give up easily or quickly.
Your 2nd point make no sense in this context and your 1st point makes no sense at all.
1. The evil of slavery was still condoned by law in the North and some parts of the West. The Emancipation Proclamation only effected the South. It was a tool to encourage slaves/former slaves to rise up against their masters/local government/state government, which would help the North win the war. The EP did not end slavery in the USA nor make it illegal (that's what the 13th Amendment did).
2) The EP could only be forced onto Texas because it lost the American Civil War. It is true that Texas has a strong fighting spirit. But that is irrelevant in this context because it was Texas that lost. And Texas' loss is the reason that Juneteenth (the forceful freeing of slaves in Texas by the North) was able to happen at all.
I'm all for Texas pride, but Juneteenth is a uniquely Texan holiday. It makes no sense for the rest of the country to celebrate it. As a country, celebrating the ratification of the 13th Amendment makes much more sense. After all, that's the day the the evil of slavery was outlawed across the entire country (not just one state).
He flat out said it was a Texas holiday, please pay attention. Your second point makes no sense at all, who picked a fight with Texas ?
Bro I’ve known what Juneteenth is my entire life. It shouldn’t be some new “independence day” but it is a thing people from the south are aware of. I think it’s a cool day to recognize. Just because Michael Knowles hadn’t heard of it from his Ivy League background doesn’t make any difference. I love the daily wire but Mr. Knowles has an arrogance about him that is off putting.
Hello, Florida born and Georgia raised. Never heard of it until a few years ago
Whereas your arrogance is warm and inviting.
@@cherie5133 maybe it’s just a texas thing 🤷♂️ I probably shouldn’t have lumped the whole south in my comment.
@@mrmicro22 I don’t think my comment had any arrogance included in it at all. It was simply my opinion of the character of Michael Knowles based on hundreds of hours listening to his podcasts and debates. I enjoyed the majority of my time listening to him but that doesn’t change my opinion. I obviously triggered you and I honestly am enjoying your misery over a RUclips comment.
@@aaronwalling1153It's a Texas thing.
President Trump was going to make it a holiday anyways. I like the holiday, just not what Wokeness has turned it into.
I never heard of this holiday until recently, like the other day. 😂
At least we get a f****n holiday
I swear homie you complain about this shit every year. Can’t people just enjoy it and you can feel free to enjoy your day off and drink wine or whatever.
As a USPS employee, I'm incredibly grateful for the holiday. I'm not black, or any other kind of minority for that matter. I am lazy and hate my job though, so the more days off, the better lol.
I’m from Texas and I love Juneteenth, grew up celebrating it and all that. It’s a shame that it’s changed it’s meaning so much
😂😂😂😂 my husband still don't know what day that is 😂😂😂😂
Bah, facts. Narrative is all we need!
😂 It's like Cinco de Mayo!
I secured my freedom on the battlefield no one GAVE me my
FREEDOM on a piece of paper!
Just heard about it this year and still had to go to work
Stares in Christmas
As a lifelong Houstonian, I had literally never heard of it since one random Monday I was off work...
Right I always thought it was another day for teachers & everyone else to take another paid day off 😂
AMAZING!!!
Man, people get offended at anything these days.